I also worked for "Yoyo Enterprisey Systems" ! I signed on in August of 09 and my experience was much the same (though I stuck it out for close to 2 yrs). My favorite part was where they wanted us to be excited and volunteer to move to Cupertino, CA on a Cincinnati, OH salary. That place was so awesome - My "Batch" (as they liked to call their sets of 20 or so new hires) got to see the deepest and darkest WTFs of our Asian subcontinent colleagues, so I appreciate THAT learning experience. Some gems from our codebase:
if ($x) {
// Do Y
} else {
// Do Y
} catch {
// You guessed it! Do Y
}
try {
// Deep and convoluted maze of nested if statements and loops
x = 1 / 0;
} catch (DivideByZeroException) {
// More code
}
In a PL/SQL Stored procedure:
GOTO x:
// Seriously? GOTO in SQL? kill me now...
mod: linebreaks. -dh. we can totally weed out the Chrome users.